Greater Nashua

MERRIMACK - Having fought leukemia for the past two years, 5-year-old Stanley Glowacki is now on the verge of winning that battle. When Stanley was 3, his mother, Megan Cahill, began noticing “random bruising” on his body as well as abnormal behavior. “For about two weeks, Stanley was not himself at all,” she said. One day, the daycare center called and said Stanley had developed a fever and needed to go home. Upon seeing her son, Cahill had a feeling that this was more than just a fever. She took him to the pediatrician, who initially suspected that Stanley was anemic. The doctor also ordered blood testing to further investigate the ailment. The test results suggested that Stanley had leukemia. “Within two hours, we were on our way to the hospital,” said Cahill, adding that the news hit her like a “freight train.” Cahill’s husband, Nathan Glowacki, an ...